The Program

All-Liszt Recital

Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542
Sonata in B Minor
Les jeux d'eaux á la Villa d'Este
Feux follets
Les funerailles
Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Pre-concert lecture with David Dubal at 6:45 pm

The Artist

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.  Although he has long been regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature.  An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takács, and Tokyo Quartets, among other ensembles.  Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio.  A native of White Plains, NY, Mr. Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8.  He attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music and at 13 entered The Juilliard School.  Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI.  He makes his home in San Francisco.